competence needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 116 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
competence is the highest-scoring word from competence, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 116 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in competence — and it is competence itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in competence produces 3 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: compete and concept, worth 13 points apiece in Scrabble.
Unscrambling competence turns up 10 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is coempt, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in competence. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is compt, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in competence produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, come and cone. For points, the strongest play is comp — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling competence turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cop and men. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including cop, mop and cep.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in competence. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, no, on, and to. For points, 7 words tie at 4 points, including me, em and mo.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in competence plus one additional letter.
competence is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for competence. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
competence is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing competence unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is competence, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from competence earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in competence produce 116 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.